Day
14: July 25, 2012
Today
was the most relaxing day I’ve had since I’ve been here. The team had their
free day today so that I meant I had the day off! I spent most of it working on
getting my social media ministry up and running. I am getting excited about
that and looking forward to seeing what God does with it. I got to skype with
the family and get a few other things done. I was just starting to wonder what
I should do for dinner. And thank goodness I checked my own facebook just in
time to see that there was a bonfire at the cabins where the team was staying
and if I wanted to go I needed to be to the church at 6… I got the message at
5:40 and it’s a 15 minute walk. So I left the house and quickly walked to the
church. I should’ve known I didn’t need
to rush however, as usual we were running on Tico Time (which is anywhere from
a half an hour to an hour later than the scheduled time). So even though we
were supposed to meet at 6 and leave by 6:15, we met at 6 or 6:15 and left
around 6:45.
So we
were on our way, five of us travelling in a fifteen passenger van with Derek
driving. Keep in mind, to go pretty much anywhere further than fifteen minutes
away around here, you have to either go up, down, or around a mountain. In this
case we had to go up a mountain. But we were about ten minutes into the drive
when Derek realizes he forgot cots for the other team that was doing dance
ministry in San Carlos. The dance team was joining the other team tonight and
they needed extra beds. So we turned the van around and went down the mountain
to get the cots. Two girls got lucky because they had arrived at the church on
even later Tico time and would have missed out if we hadn’t had to turn around.
So we get the cots and two more people and we’re on our way up the mountain
again.
It was
a really steep mountain… we were driving a fifteen passenger van with seven
people up this really steep hill. Keep in mind, all the cars here are stick
shifts… At one point we stalled out because the car was having trouble and I
watched a bunch of smoke come up from the hood. Derek pulled over and got out.
Also keep in mind, sometimes the roads can be very narrow in Costa Rica, like
barely wide enough for two cars. We had to stop on one of those roads. So we
were pulled over with our blinkers on waiting for our engine to cool down… in
the dark. Thankfully the engine cooled down in like 10 or 15 minutes and we
made it the rest of the way safely.
When
we finally got there we had a great meal in the cabins where the group is
staying and then we walked down the mountain a little ways for a nice bonfire.
One of the workers got the fire started for us but we realized we didn’t have
anything to put the marshmallows on to roast them over the fire to make s’mores.
There were plenty of sticks around they were just dirty. I asked if anyone had
a knife we could use to just whittle a
little off a tip so it would be cleaner. No one had a knife. I was wishing my
dad was there, I knew he would have been prepared with a knife for us. But
thankfully the worker broke some green twigs off a bush for us to use. It was a nice night for a fire and it was
good to fellowship with others for a while, especially after being home alone
all day.
Christine
is back too! So it’ll be good to have her company again. Keep praying for me as
I seek out what sort of big things God has for me, in Costa Rica but also in
the states.
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